Media Coverage
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Volcano under Antarctic ice may erupt, accelerate melting
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in an NBC News story about the discovery of a volcano beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.
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Honduras Votes
History professor Dana Frank contributed a piece to The Nation about how four years after a military coup deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, Hondurans have a chance with their November 24 elections to restore a measure of democracy.
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Cover Story: Mountains Were Here
Santa Cruz's Good Times Weekly interviewed art professor Beth Stephens for a lengthy cover story about her new film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain, an enviromental documentary about taking peformance art to the coal communities of West Virginia to fight the practice of mountaintop removal mining.
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Celebrated Palestinian/American poet Naomi Shihab Nye headlines annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, hosted on campus this year by humanities lecturer and Santa Cruz's first Poet Laureate Gary Young, and featuring celebrated Palestinian/American poet Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Santa Cruz film fest opens with movie on mountaintop removal
The Monterey Herald published a story about the 2013 Santa Cruz Film Festival, noting that it featured a showcase of films by UCSC students and that it would be opened by the West Coast premiere of an environmental documenary film co-directed by art professor Beth Stephens about mountaintop removal of coal. A story also appeared…
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UCSC's Rainbow Theater celebrates 20 years
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about UCSC's multicultural Rainbow Theater, celebrating 20 years of breaking down cultural walls and promoting dialogue. A story also appeared in the Good Times Weekly.
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Coelacanths might be monogamous, to the surprise of researchers
Biologist Giacomo Bernardi was quoted in a Mongabay story about the reproductive lives of coelocanths.
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Perfection is a myth, reveal 50,000 generations
Evolutionary biologist John Thompson is quoted in a New Scientist article about an experiment tracking changes in bacteria grown in the laboratory for 50,000 generations.
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Who’s Afraid of the Common Core? Not California
New America Media interviewed education professor Judit Moschkovich on math instruction for an article on common core standards.
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UCSC program supports undocumented students
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about UCSC Dreamweavers, a volunteer program supporting undocumented students.
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From prison isolation to a sense of doom
The Los Angeles Times quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in an article about a former inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison who now attends UC Berkeley.
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Here, Drink A Nice Glass Of Sparkling Clear Wastewater
Environmental studies professor Brent Haddad was quoted on NPR's "All Things Considered" in a story on recycling and purifying wastewater.